We review the theory and applications of the photoacoustic and related methods belonging
to the general area of photothermal measurement techniques. This essay is intended for …

Many of the renewable and sustainable energy technologies employ novel nanomaterials.
For instance, thermal storage and thermoelectric conversion are in constant progress due to …

The optoacoustic method has by now an almost one-centurY-long history of appl ication in
spectroscopy, but it was only with the advent of the laser that it became a convenient and …

A quantitative analysis of the electronic deformation (electronic strain) contribution to the
photoacoustic signal in semiconductor samples was done. The photoacoustic (PA) effect …

A minimal-volume photoacoustic cell method is demonstrated for obtaining the thermal
diffusivity of solids. It is based on the measurement of the acoustic signal as a function of the …

The system of partially coupled plasma, thermal, and elastic wave equations and conditions
for neglecting the coupling between them is analyzed. The treatment considers a …

In this paper, the influence of the measurement range on the prediction of thermoelastic and
geometric properties of a thin aluminum sample obtained by solving the inverse …

The photoacoustic effect was explained more than half a century ago and has since been
used to develop non-destructive and non-contact techniques for testing materials. Most …

We present the temperature distribution predictions for photothermal systems by considering
an extension of dual-phase lag. It is an extension of the GCE-II and GCE-III models with a …

Using two different photoacoustic techniques for a two-layer system of variable thickness, we
show that the thermal diffusivity and the thermal conductivity are completely determined …